Category: Random

When we think of casino performers, it’s hard not to start thinking about the great Vegas headliners – big-ticket names and death-defying acts. A casino certainly doesn’t feel like the place for an indie band. Thanks to the efforts of...

Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain committed suicide 20 years ago (April 5), joining the Forever 27 club, with members Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, and since joined by Amy Winehouse. Nirvana were arguably one of the most...

If you don’t know by now, the 2nd annual Prism Prize award will be handed out on Sunday for the best Canadian Music Video, as decided by an amazing jury. The jury is amazing because I am on it (which...

Indie bands on the poker player’s iPod Song choices at a poker tournament, online or live, can make or break your game. The games are long, so a variety of music might help pull you through those long sessions. During...

One of our more popular posts every year is our list of indie songs that deal with breakups, heartbreak, and rejection. Perhaps I should include a link to some therapy sites at the bottom of the page (or if you’re...

PeteHatesMusic had many interesting interviews this year – unfortunately none of the bands we talked to felt this way. After painfully revisting these interviews, we’ve highlighted the best bits. Check out last year’s best quotes, too. Below are some of...

PeteHatesMusic on Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic You’re a musician. You work hard on an album. It leaks to the Internet ahead of its scheduled release. Do you cancel your celebrations and go ballistic, or simply shrug? If you’re Simon Cowell, you call...

I was convinced this video would suck when I first started to watch it. Because of all of the lame, viral videos that I see, I always assume the worst. The track is called the Fox and is by Norwegian...

We’re two thirds of the way done 2013. Last fall, we made some predictions about which artists we thought would be good bets for breakout artists in 2013. Hopefully you found time to place some big bets, as we didn’t...

Thanks to the magic of the Internet, I can write posts to make it look like I’m blogging, when really, I’m in the Caribbean either running away from a hurricane or getting a sunburn. Thanks to the magic of Google,...

Yes, this is a real thing. For some reason (perhaps to appeal to a demographic that they have very few listeners in?), Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich from Atoms for Peace (and um, Radiohead fame) answer some questions from teenage...

As we put the final touches on our interview with CHVRCHES, we are treated to the band’s recording of them covering the Game of Thrones theme. Ignoring the fact that they filmed it in portrait video on their phone and...

I’m a busy boy, so you get a rehash of last year’s Easter Playlist. Enjoy your chocolates! It’s Easter long weekend for most of us, or an EXTRA long weekend for those lucky devils (poor choice of words given the...

Someone finally noticed that James Hetfield says YEAAAAA a lot. Heavy metal music is actually quite positive in its lyrics – who knew? Anyway, some poor soul decide to collect all of these YEAAAAAs into one 3 minute track of...

Musicmetric has crunched the numbers behind South By Southwest, so people like me don’t have to. And wouldn’t you know it – the Austin, Texas event is pretty popular. The 1,547 bands playing SXSW this year have a cumulative 367,072,417...